M. Ward Quotes
I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.
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I don't think about, 'Oh, I'm finally getting my respect,' because I don't care about this.
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I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it.
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I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.
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I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.
